Elena Furlanetto received her doctorate in Transnational/Transatlantic American Studies from the TU Dortmund in July 2015 and her Venia Legendi in American Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2023. Her habilitation manuscript “Ambiguity: Dis/Ambiguated Texts and Selves in North America, 1643-1883” won the 2023 Rob Kroes Publication Award by the European Association of American Studies.

She is the coordinator of the DFG Research Network “Voices and Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600-1865” (with Ilka Brasch) and a PI within the DFG Research Unit FOR 2600 “Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Historisch Kulturelle Dynamiken.” Her current book project, tentatively called Racial Transcendence, is an intersectional and interamerican reading of racial passing.

Elena Furlanetto’s work moves in transnational and postcolonial spaces, and engages the intersections between American cultures and other cultures.

• Early and 19^th-century American Studies

• Atlantic Studies

• Postcolonial Literatures and Comparative Empire Studies

• Islam and the US

• Horror Film

• Animal Studies

Elena Furlanetto. Towards Turkish American Literature: Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey. Peter Lang, 2017.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1113237

Elena Furlanetto & Dietmar Meinel, editors. A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts. Transcript, 2018.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4132-5/a-poetics-of-neurosis/

Elena Furlanetto & Frank Mehring. “Media Agoras: Islamophobia and Inter/Multimedial Dissensus.” European Journal of American Studies, vol.15, no. 3, 2020.
https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/16141?lang=fr

Other publications available here https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elena-Furlanetto